lol i can't translate those text in the image, is there any text version available?  Try this. Strange. That link just takes me to a login page in Chinese... we can't translate text images can we? (unless we speak that language lol)
I don't know if they have OCR programs written for the Chinese language but I did once translate a German book into English by scanning it and processing it through an OCR program before translating it. The results were actually better than I expected although Asian languages don't tend to translate well. Probably best to wait for someone who understands Chinese to find this thread and chime in. |
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I would sell all my Bitcoins if the value of that Bitcoins is as equal to Buying a Ferrari Car. So my bitcoins should give me that return on investment that i can afford to buy a ferrari .. and if its yes..i would surely sell all my bitcoins and enjoy the drive  The value of a Ferrari is pretty ambiguous and there's a pretty big range between models even from the same era. You can buy some used Ferraris such as the 308/400/Mondial for $30,000. Then you have others that might cost over $1 million. That high bitcoin price won't happen during your lifetime. Enjoy your lost time spent on waiting for this. There is much higher possibility that bitcoin will reach $100 that $1000 in next 5 years.
History suggests otherwise though. No lol, thats what everyone said when BTC was 1 USD. "You can spend a lifetime waiting for a zero, but 10 will never happen". Thats an actual quote from 2010 or so. The thing is, we don't know and that 1K ATH may look like a little peak in 5 years.
To be fair, the jump up from cents to $10 was ridiculously easy. Back then there was something like what? 5 million coins? A $50 million market cap is a pretty simple and straightforward thing to accomplish. It was pretty much guaranteed once word of Bitcoin got out and the masses started picking it up. It will be much more difficult to push the market cap past the 1 to 5 billion dollars stage. |
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lol i can't translate those text in the image, is there any text version available? with google it easy just right click and select translate so this is the second time this thing happen to a police, but this time with 3M in price and not 300 usd only are fbi so stupid that they click on the file attached to a malicious email? Not everyone in the FBI is a security expert/analyst. You probably have a lot of office-type people working there too as well as those who are in administration. |
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Seems like a lot of work is required to delete an account. Couldn't most of the process be automated? Bots are great at doing tedious tasks that humans don't have time for and this looks like the kind of job that a bot could do well. In fact, you might not even need a bot. I used to manage a discussion forum a while back (although it was based on phpBB and not SMF) as well as a wiki running on MediaWiki, and for both of these sites, it was possible to completely delete a user's entire posting history and even their account by clicking a "nuke" button. Couldn't an admin do the same in these forums?
I believe MyBB have this feature too. So, SMF should have it too. I think the admin just want to give people like shorena a job. This is actually a creative idea. Yeah, I think most forum software has the ability to do this. It's almost always used for newbie accounts and particularly spambots but I remember being on a forum once (not the same forum I managed) and there was someone with over 1,000 posts who wanted their account deleted. A few minutes later, all their posts were gone and their profile page had disappeared too. EDIT: Found this: I believe only patrollers can delete newbies posts or nuke them site-wide and they don't have to be reported. If you're just a local mod you probably can't do it outside of your jurisdiction unless you're a patroller as well (like Eal). I'm guessing by "nuke", he's referring to what I described - i.e. deletion of all posts as well as the account. |
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Seems like a lot of work is required to delete an account. Couldn't most of the process be automated? Bots are great at doing tedious tasks that humans don't have time for and this looks like the kind of job that a bot could do well. In fact, you might not even need a bot. I used to manage a discussion forum a while back (although it was based on phpBB and not SMF) as well as a wiki running on MediaWiki, and for both of these sites, it was possible to completely delete a user's entire posting history and even their account by clicking a "nuke" button. Couldn't an admin do the same in these forums?
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Why is it always a conspiracy? Flip a quarter 100 million times, you'll eventually get heads 100 times in a row. Now flaw in the quarter, just as it's not a flaw that a few blocks get solved in a short period.
 You need some serious probability classes around here. No offense please...it is a joke... If you flip a quarter 100 million times and the probability of getting sometime 100 times heads in a row is 10^8 / 2^100 x(10^8-100) =7.8 10^{-15} pretty small  In order to get heads 100 times in a row you need to flip your quarter about 10^22 times...my guess is that your quarter will disintegrate in the process... It's slightly more complicated as it involves Bayesian probability although you're close. A run of 20 heads is a roughly 1 in a million occurrence and the required rolls goes up exponentially the higher you get. For more information, see: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/20-heads-in-a-row-what-are-the-odds/229300217 |
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So the payments don't go back to your original account after you deposit? Could it be a bug? Because it looks like the website is still up and loading.
If it is a scam then it's surprising that someone would go through the trouble of registering a domain, setting up hosting, buying/installing a PHP script, setting up bitcoind, and everything else that comes with establishing a site just to get $25. After all of that, you would end up with a profit of $10-15 at most and you would have wasted an entire day's worth of your time.
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That surely is a great idea. I was just going to lock the thread but now I decided to keep it open for views on Mt.Gox's suggestion. I personally am looking forward for a program which can calculate Potential Activity, and try making it web based  Here's my attempt at a Java-based pseudocode version: int currenttime = getCurrentTime(); // method to get current time
int starttime = x;
int timesincestart = currenttime - starttime; // gets number of seconds since starttime (aka. x)
int noofactivityperiods = timesincestart / 1210000; calculates no. of activity periods
array activityperiods[noofactivityperiods];
int counter = 0;
while counter <= noofactivityperiods{
**/
{
import "http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=" + userid + ";sa=showPosts"
activityperiods[counter] = counter;
}
counter++ **/
} // creates array with Well at least I tried.  EDIT: It's way more difficult than I thought. For Java, you would use a scanner object to parse through the posts and then assign each post with a timestamp in unix time. Then you would put these into an arraylist (e.g. 1 = 334827182, 2 = 334899838...). You would then have to parse through the arraylist and sort posts into ANOTHER arraylist containing boolean entries. Then you would count up the boolean entries and multiply by 14 to get the potential activity. It's actually pretty advanced-level stuff, unfortunately. EDIT 2: Those comment tags are there because I gave up halfway through typing it since I couldn't figure out how to manipulate the scanner object to navigate through the pages. Can you run it on a site? A web based activity calculator will be a real help for the community. And is the code working? That's just pseudocode. With a little bit of effort (e.g. importing objects), you could probably turn it into something compilable and executable within a browser window but right now, it can only count the number of activity periods assuming someone posted at least once in every single activity period. There would need to be a way to assign "true" or "false" (i.e. boolean) values to each activity period and then count the instances that "true" appears and multiply this number by 14. That sounds easy but when you're parsing the results of not just one but an arbitary number of .html documents and in reverse order combined with sanitizing inputs correctly and converting timestamps to unix time (although I suppose there are libraries available for this) then the problem quickly becomes very messy. TL;DR: I completely underestimated the complexity. The code is really only half complete. Someone here with more programming expertise than me could probably do it. |
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I can help with hosting if that is what OP wants. I have shared hosting and VPS. I can also refer you to dedicated cloud hosting providers if you want to host an instance of bitcoind. PM me if you're interested. Ponzi is never seriously. The ultimate goal is still the only scam. I apologize for frank
If people know what they play then they won't be cheated by scam site.
people gonna get lured to sites they think that it is gonna give them high value of their money..we can see coinsdouble.com initially it paid to people and when people started giving faith to it and started investing their high amount of bitcoin they never paid in return..
so i saying you cant tell when a site is going to turn into a scam..better is always think no one can give you anything for free..so better work hard and dont get involve in these hyip ponzis.
Bro, it is Ponzi! It is a scam every time. Everyone know that. Stop defending stupid people who take part in it. People are just greedy to the point they fell for and it is ok, because it is karma that bite their asses.
The more Ponzis the merrier, maybe then people will learn someday.
I ccould surely help you but the fact that Ponzis are scams makes me worry While it does seem that more ponzis end up being straight up scams for some reason, as Hazir said, a distinction should be made between ponzi "investment" schemes that aim to hide their ponzi nature and ponzi games that don't. The latter can turn out to be a scam but so can dice sites and other businesses that accept BTC deposits. Dependent on how its coded, it could be run from shared hosting also
Shared hosting works best for smaller sites that don't use up too much bandwidth or resources. It might be suitable for a smaller ponzi that is just starting out but any bigger, and a VPS or dedicated server would be required. You're late guy, party of Ponzis is now over, no one will buy your coffee anymore, if you're seeking to earn money, then this is not a good way.
There was a ponzi fad a few months ago which seems to have died down a bit. There are still many others running although most don't last very long unfortunately.  |
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That surely is a great idea. I was just going to lock the thread but now I decided to keep it open for views on Mt.Gox's suggestion. I personally am looking forward for a program which can calculate Potential Activity, and try making it web based Here's my attempt at a Java-based pseudocode version: int currenttime = getCurrentTime(); // method to get current time
int starttime = x;
int timesincestart = currenttime - starttime; // gets number of seconds since starttime (aka. x)
int noofactivityperiods = timesincestart / 1210000; calculates no. of activity periods
array activityperiods[noofactivityperiods];
int counter = 0;
while counter <= noofactivityperiods{
**/
{
import "http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=" + userid + ";sa=showPosts"
activityperiods[counter] = counter;
}
counter++ **/
} // creates array with Well at least I tried. EDIT: It's way more difficult than I thought. For Java, you would use a scanner object to parse through the posts and then assign each post with a timestamp in unix time. Then you would put these into an arraylist (e.g. 1 = 334827182, 2 = 334899838...). You would then have to parse through the arraylist and sort posts into ANOTHER arraylist containing boolean entries. Then you would count up the boolean entries and multiply by 14 to get the potential activity. It's actually pretty advanced-level stuff, unfortunately. EDIT 2: Those comment tags are there because I gave up halfway through typing it since I couldn't figure out how to manipulate the scanner object to navigate through the pages. |
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Those links to GAW on the first post are broken. So I understand that Josh Garza and his company are continuing to wreak havoc even despite that fact that their main website no longer exists? What about hashlets? I see that they are no longer being sold but I also see that they are still mining which is bizarre. How do their owners access them if GAW is offline? EDIT: And their main page now says "Service Unavailable - HTTP Error 503" instead of a parking page:  |
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I dont hink im red, if you see me as red remove doog from your trust list.
It's not red. And the "Warning: Trade with extreme caution!" message doesn't show up. I'm using the default trust settings and this is what I see:  |
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You might not have a maximum you have set but when you think about it, there is only a maximum amount of posts someone can make in a week and that 300 would not be reached unless the member has no life outside bitcointalk or they spam the forum.
Best poster i have seen when i checked dadice spread a few weeks ago was Quickseller at 150posts a week, do you have a bigger poster in Bit-x? so 100 post limit is fine and good for the forum as it discourages spam.
OP i checked your recent posts and i have to ask marco did you kick/remove him because of spam?
I've had days where I made over 50 posts in 24 hours although they usually involved me not doing anything else and not sleeping. It's extremely difficult, and definitely not sustainable for most people in the long run, but for someone who is retired or otherwise not working/studying and is also very interested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, I can see how they could easily make well over 100+ posts per week. For example, hilariousandco was one of the top posters back in 2014. I mean, he still is, but he posted way more frequently back then. And pretty much all of his posts were constructive too. I wouldn't be surprised if he went over 300+ posts during some of those weeks. I think the campaign doesnt use an escrow. So be careful when joining. The rates are not bad though, but you can only post a maximum of 50 posts. Its nice to see that it accepts newbies too. Actually they do have an escrow now: Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1037386.msg11193762#msg11193762 |
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how the heck does someone land a x990 payout like seriously wtf...
I hit either 990x or 9,900x (forgot which) a few months ago while playing with the faucet. Ended up making little over $2. It's difficult, but not impossible. Hui got 9900x many times. Its not impossible but its so hard
Hui is legend player and very much addictive of primedice, all time in time chat to help other players and fucking lucky person got 9900x so many times there, 9900x is little hard but not impossible as i also got 9900x 3 times till now. Not sure how PD works since it's been a while since I played but if only large amounts are shown, then it's possible that you're only seeing the rare winning bets while the smaller but much more frequent losing bets go largely unnoticed. hmm. I accidentally made a 0.01 bet on 9900x some time ago. Thats why i ask if wgat will happen xD
in most cases that the system will only credit your balance for 20 BTC as the rules has stated that the max win per bet is 20 BTC . Cant actually remember this but I thought hui has done the 0.01 BTC for 9900x before and got 19.9 BTC for that? (cant really remember and I might be wrong ) When do we expect Primedice Signature Campaign? It is an old topic and Dont gets your hopes up, since Stunna is still bidding for the forum advertisement, I doubt it will happen shortly. The question is asked at least once every few weeks. I remember that Stunna was very close to launching his signature campaign at one point. Back then, there were charts showing the value of posts in different forum categories and only a few bugs needed to be fixed before it was ready. It seems to have been placed in the back burner for now though. Da Dice is getting popular despite it having nearly the same feature set as PD and less reputation, so perhaps that might be an incentive for Stunna to reintroduce the campaign. |
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There are plenty of really interesting projects happening now in crypto/decentralziation. The thing is, it takes both skill and a lot of luck to spot the good ones. Even if you invest in something that's objectively great, it doesn't necessarly mean it will catch up with the popular and deliver massive gains.
Most people do not have the skill or LUCKY to find the promising coins. We can only invest the long standing coins, but they may die in any minute. Remember solid coin and Geist Guide... Good thing i dropped mine before they went under This is a good point. While there are plenty of promising technologies and projects currently being developed, it's impossible to know which ones will be successful in the future and which ones will be duds. Out of the old coins, Solidcoin and Geist Geld are completely dead. BBQcoin was thought to be dead but was revived and reached a multi-million dollar market cap but is now barely alive. Litecoin is currently doing very well compared to pre-2013 levels but Tenebrix and Fairbrix are dead despite the last one being the most innovative initially. Ixcoin and I0coin are doing fairly OK too. Currently there are projects like Ethereum, MaidSafe, Counterparty, NEM, NXT, BitShares, Storj, Stellar, Ripple, etc. which are all trying to add something new to the crypto world. Some of these might end up dying just like the way your Solidcoin and Geist Geld did. Others might end up creating a new generation of "wealthy elites" in the same way Bitcoin and Litecoin did. A significant remaining hurdle is seeing Bitcoin wallets installed on every smart-phone. People are more likely to buy, use, and trust Bitcoin if they already have a Bitcoin wallet. It would be less mysterious, less intimidating, and in some people, mocking, until they fed it. Some options include - pre-installed with the device (what would be their incentive?)
- pre-installed with the operating system (what would be their incentive?)
- pre-installed by the branded retailer (what would be their incentive?)
- part of an optionally downloaded software suite (piggyback)
- individual optional download (the most common method)
Bloatware! I remember that's how they got suckers into signing up for Prodigy, Compuserve, and AOL internet in the 90's... Bloatware was the first thing that came to mind for me as well. I'm not sure about how things were back in the 90's but many people these days are sick of having bloatware pre-installed on their phones and PCs. Since only a small percentage of society cares about Bitcoin right now, I'm not sure how it would be possible to integrate Bitcoin into a phone's OS without making it annoying. It would have to avoid being intrusive or "flashy", for starters. |
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Thanks for the replies everyone. Umm... That's just a link to this thread. You mean this one right? I know it's the main thread about GAW here and honestly, I tried reading it but at 1,750 pages in length, it's kinda hard to understand what's really going on since I was never really all that into cloud mining in the first place so I never really kept up with the latest news. Just always thought GAW was one of the major players in the scene and I'm surprised they're no longer alive. tl;dr hashlets were fractional mining, Paycoin was a scam, now the feds are up their ass Ouch. Well that doesn't sound good at all. They should've just stuck to mining instead of bringing attention to themselves with Paycoin. Are you trolling or what?
Where have you been for the last couple of months not to hear the famous GAW story?
All in all, Josh Garza lied, scammed and misinformed his clients and this resulted in total crash of all of his services. Now he s being sued by a lots of people.
My only experience in cloud mining is few mining contracts off Cryptsy. I do remember GAW as being one of the more well known companies though. Sad to see them end up this way. big company like GAW is dead now , no one believe in cloudmining anymore. all its just hidden ponzi scheme.
I guess the recent failures of GAW and AMHash really goes to show that even the most trusted and legitimate companies can eventually end up being scams. |
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This is a tricky work, a minute or an hour can make a difference in potential activity. You must know the exact time when the forum activity updates.
Well if someone wants some kind of information that requires some level of work to get and would only be beneficial to him then it should be expected that he would pay for such research. I am surprised that so many people were willing to count how much potential activity the OP has for free, although I am fairly certain that a number of people that responded on here did not actually check lol.
I could probably write a Python script that calculates activity by parsing through the user's post history and storing the results in an array. The forum uses Unix time to calculate activity periods which are 1,210,000 seconds long. A new activity period begins when 1374560000 % 1210000 == 0 is true. It will probably take a couple of days to write but I might do it if there is enough interest. |
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I recommend visiting twister's link. It's a really nice and clear summary of the different signature campaigns here although sometimes the information isn't up to date. Put "Bit-X sucks" in your signature space.
Strange to see Bitmixer is also there. Other than their slightly low payouts for senior members and up, their signature campaign has been generally quite well received since everything is automated and payments are usually processed quickly. Was just removed from the Bit-X campaign, not for spam, just due to them prunning membership.... What's the best campaign to join now?
the highest pay per post campaign as of now is DaDice. here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=973949.0While DaDice is currently the highest campaign that pays per post, there are also fixed payment ones that might offer a higher rate depending on your posting habits. Most of these have stricter requirements compared to typical signature campaigns. CoinRoyale, for example, pays 0.04 BTC for a minimum of 20 posts per week: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=947043 |
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I'm not sure what happen to them. But my advise to you is not to invest in cloud mining. I invested in a few myself.. and I have not get my profit back.
This advice is generally true but I seem to remember someone saying that the early hashlets were quite profitable. There were different varieties of hashlets for sale and one of them was much better than the others although it was slightly more expensive. Each variety was set to mine in its own pool but one of them either mined in an extremely profitable pool or otherwise somehow made more money than the others. I think there was another variety that mined paycoins or something like that. I'm not sure about the exact details but I think that one ended up being quite profitable too. |
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